Bronx-based artist Ronny Quevedo uses a mix of traditional and found materials, and employs a rigorous process for mark-making and embossing. Patterns and marks in Quevedo's mixed media works derive from sporting fields, indigenous land works, pre-Columbian textiles, and constellations, all suggestive of shared histories of migration.

The exhibition is on view March 7 – April 27, 2019. An artist talk is scheduled for April 17; click “learn more” for details.

Backroom exhibition:Morgan BuckGoggles Glazed Over

First Thursday opening February 7, 6:00 – 8:00pm (artist present)

Portland-based painter Morgan Buck distorts and blurs images culled from the web using a smartphone's panorama photo feature and a handheld magnifier, before carefully translating the results in airbrushed paint. This process removes digital signifiers like pixelation and glitches, leaving viewers with a generatively produced work that appears, in his words, "indistinguishable from a genuine work of imaginative thought."

After spending summer and early fall participating in four artist residencies across North America, Ralph Pugay returns for his second solo exhibition at Upfor. In addition to the vibrant paintings Pugay is known for, the exhibition includes a series of drawings and limited-edition screen prints

Julie Green embeds narrative details, easily missed in a cursory look, in or near the borders of each painting. Each also has content not readily visible in the gallery setting: on the front, elements in glow in the dark paint; on the back, facsimiles of women's fingerprints. Once charged in daylight, the glow-in-the-dark paint shines all night long.